
Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944
Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris
Jean Guehenno(Autor*in)
Oxford University Press Inc
Erschienen am 31. Juli 2014
Buch
Hardcover
336 Seiten
978-0-19-997086-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Jean Guehenno's Diary of the Dark Years 1940-1945 is the book historians love to quote to describe both ordinary daily life and literary life in Paris under Nazi occupation. While it is a sharply observed record of day-to-day life in occupied Paris, this diary is far more than that: it is "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice." (Caroline Moorehead, Wall Street Journal.) At the time, Guehenno was a well-known political and cultural critic, left-wing but not Communist, and uncompromisingly anti-fascist. Unlike most French writers during the Occupation, he refused to pen a word for a publishing industry under Nazi control. He expressed his intellectual, moral and emotional resistance in this diary: his shame at the Vichy government's collaboration with Nazi Germany, his contempt for its falsely patriotic reactionary ideology, his outrage at its anti-Semitism and its vilification of the Republic it had abolished, his horror at its increasingly savage repression and his disgust with his fellow intellectuals who kept on blithely writing about art and culture as if the Occupation did not exist-not to mention those who praised their new masters in prose and poetry.
Guehenno was a teacher of French literature, and he constantly observes the young people he taught, sometimes saddened by their conformism but always passionately trying to inspire them with the values of the French cultural tradition he loved-from Montaigne to Voltaire and Rousseau and the democratic thinkers of the nineteenth century. He often sets down his reflections on the great texts he is teaching in this diary; they take on a special meaning in the context of the Occupation. The notes and biographical index in this edition will help the reader to understand both the diarist's cultural allusions and the dramatic current events he records.
Guehenno was a teacher of French literature, and he constantly observes the young people he taught, sometimes saddened by their conformism but always passionately trying to inspire them with the values of the French cultural tradition he loved-from Montaigne to Voltaire and Rousseau and the democratic thinkers of the nineteenth century. He often sets down his reflections on the great texts he is teaching in this diary; they take on a special meaning in the context of the Occupation. The notes and biographical index in this edition will help the reader to understand both the diarist's cultural allusions and the dramatic current events he records.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Diary of the Dark Years provides a rich and vivid picture of life in occupied Paris... well served by an extensive introduction and detailed notes by David Ball, who translated the book with great claritty and elegance. * Survival: Global Politics & Strategy * Guehenno's meticulous documentation is a very worthwhile, and it has to be said, vibrant read. * David Marx: Book Reviews * there are revealing glimpses of one man's effort to maintain dignity * Gerard DeGroot, The Times * Compelling ... crisply translated, a fascinating blend of inward monologue and acute exterior observations. * Wall Street Journal * The best account of living in Paris under the Nazis has finally been published. * The Scotsman *Weitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
USA
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
15 b/w photos
Maße
Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 24 mm
Gewicht
734 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-997086-5 (9780199970865)
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Jean Guehenno
(1890-1978) French writer and intellectualTranslated, introduced, and annotated by David Ball
Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Smith College
(1890-1978) French writer and intellectualTranslated, introduced, and annotated by David Ball
Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Smith College
Autor*in
(1890-1978) French writer(1890-1978) French writer
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Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative LiteratureProfessor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Smith College
Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Translator's Introduction
Preface
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
Biographical Dictionary
Appendix: "Charles de Gaulle: 'The Call of June 18'"
Note on the Text
Translator's Introduction
Preface
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
Biographical Dictionary
Appendix: "Charles de Gaulle: 'The Call of June 18'"